by Thomas Sojka | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2021
In Pursuit of THE PURSUIT OF LOVE The 2020s have arrived, bringing sensational headlines on the state of the global economy that anticipate “another Roaring Twenties” or condemn the comparison as “absurd.” What these headlines miss, and often obscure, is the reality...
by Aditi Parikh | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2021
A Critique of Racial Inequality in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, a tragedy likely written in late 1593 and set in ancient Rome, is a meditation on early modern race relations that still resonates today. The play follows a white,...
by Adrienne Sockwell | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2021
Letting your DNA “Show You the Way”: Selling the Politics of Genetics and the Business of Race As a historian, and as a person interested in most narratives of the past, I realize the unique value of Ancestry.com as a research tool in my own work. But, I...
by Carly Lewis | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2021
Måneskin: Italian Rockers on a Journey for Global Human Connection “Rock and Roll Never Dies!” From buskers on La Via del Corso to Eurovision winners, Måneskin shows what it means to earn a growing global platform and use it well This year’s Eurovision Song Contest...
by Kaitlyn Lindgren-Hansen | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Universities Must Protect Workers, Not Profits Even in the best of times, graduate students occupy a precarious position in higher education. But with many universities failing to offer clear directives for what instruction will look like for the upcoming fall...
by Tina Borah | Jul 24, 2024 | Essays, Essays 2024
Challenging the Peripheral: Reading Assam in Reema Rajbanshi’s Sugar, Smoke, Song Growing up in the capital city of Guwahati, Assam, life was marked by recurring floods and occasional violence, shaping a unique resilience in middle-class girls like us. We were...